Новости за 12.11.2015

A lapsed Apple digital certificate today triggered a massive app fiasco that prevented Mac users from running software they'd purchased from the Mac App Store.

An autonomous robot was unveiled this week that can make sure that when you're hankering for Doritos, there's a bag waiting for you at the market.

Overall tablet shipments have dropped 20% in recent quarters, but workplace uses for the devices are still growing in the U.S.

Self-driving cars are expected to take over the roadways in the next two decades, but the vast majority of the fleet will likely be dedicated to services and not owned by individuals, according to a new report by IHS Automotive.

Dropbox has, since its inception, seen meteoric growth. The reasons for that are fairly self-evident. Dropbox is the case study for virality. Its file sharing solution is widely-regarded as the easiest solution in the space to use and its approach of allowing new users to quickly and easily come on board the platform has seen it become the poster child for viral growth.

Mozilla on Thursday launched Firefox for iOS, the browser it long loved to resist coding.

Years after the widespread adoption of workplace smartphones, more than half of U.S. companies said they have no formal BYOD (bring your own device) policy to safeguard their enterprises, according to a survey.

Heading into next week’s Supercomputing 2015 conference in Austin, the topic on the tip of every attendee’s tongue is simply, "supercomputing." Researchers, industry leaders and computational users are gathering by the thousands to investigate how many ways can we explore the power of the microchip in a supercomputing environment.

Companies relying on self-encrypting drives (SEDs) to secure data stored on their employees' laptops should be aware that this technology is not immune to attack and should carefully consider whether they want to use this rather than software-based approaches.

Three months into Microsoft’s “Windows as a Service” strategy, many of us expected to see significant progress in plugging the many holes in the “RTM” July 29 build 10240 release of Windows 10. Unfortunately, Windows 10 version 1511 -- aka Threshold 2, Fall Update, build 10586 -- takes only tiny steps in that direction.

Since the Windows 10 launch at the end of July, Microsoft has been providing small performance and security updates to the OS, but the company has largely kept new features at bay.

According to the Ponemon Institute’s 10th annual Cost of Data Breach Study, the average consolidated total cost of a data breach is now $6.53 million for a U.S. organization, an 11% increase since last year. The study also found that the average cost per lost or stolen record containing sensitive and confidential information rose from $201 in 2014 to $217. These facts alone should encourage every company to tighten its data security policies and capabilities, but there’s more. Key legal and regulatory... Читать дальше...

Software analytics vendor New Relic is a company that I've been following for many years. In part because they do interesting stuff and in part because their CEO, Lew Cirne, is an interesting guy. This is no buttoned down cookie cutter MBA executive here -- Cirne named the company as an anagram of his own name and is well known for taking his "coding retreats" focused time away from the day to day operations of the business to immerse himself in ideating new products and features. I've not caught up with Cirne since New Relic's IPO... Читать дальше...

A few weeks ago when the news came out that Safe harbor provisions would no longer be a safe haven for U.S. vendors doing business in Europe, there was plenty of concern about what it would mean for the largest U.S. cloud vendors -- Salesforce, Microsoft, Google and Amazon Web Services (AWS) all have massive business in Europe and relied on the Safe Harbor provisions to keep customers feeling secure.

Microsoft's November Patch Tuesday brings us four critical updates and eight important patches that attempt to resolve 54 reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office. In addition to this release of 12 updates, we will shortly see Microsoft refresh the Windows 10 desktop platform with the Fall Refresh or Threshold 2 (build 1511). I expect to see this larger update of build 1511 released on Thursday.

Google has brought cellular connectivity between mobile phones and smartwatches running the Android Wear operating system, thus making it possible for people to make and pick up calls at say a shopping mall even when the phone is at home.

It's a case that would seem to defy the odds many times over: Two Florida women born on the same day, in the same state, and given almost the same name. Though no one realized it at the time, it turns out they were also given the same Social Security number.

Apple is in talks with major banks on an extension of its Apple Pay service that would allow person-to-person payments.

Windows 10 adoption is already significantly behind the uptake pace set by its predecessor, 2013’s Windows 8.1, during its first three months, according to an analysis of OS user share.

Update #2: The Apple iPad Pro is released, and the reviews are in. It’s a mixed bag, as usual, but there’s definitely some lingering confusion about for whom and for what this convertible iOS tablet is designed.

The iPad Pro is dauntingly big. It's also surprisingly thin -- 6.9mm thin, which is slimmer than an iPhone 6S.

Contract programmer pilot fish is working on a project to automate a steel rolling mill -- where giant ingots the size of cars are flattened into rolls and coils that can be used by other companies.

Regular readers will know I’m keeping an eye on Apple’s growing enterprise credentials, and it looks like iPad Pro has taken these a few steps higher with the serendipitous introduction of a third party solution that brings better SharePoint support for iOS.

A popular Java library has a serious vulnerability, discovered over nine months ago, that continues to put thousands of Java applications and servers at risk of remote code execution attacks.

China is a growing presence in the NAND flash industry and is expected to play a pivotal role in supply and demand over the next two to three years, according to a new report.